Must Life be Carbon-Based?

Must Carbon be the building block of life in the universe?

• 26 mins

Why Does Dark Matter, Matter?

Scientists have been hunting for it for decades, but will finding it change our lives?

• 31 mins

How does the Moon affect life on Earth?

We investigate the moon's effects on life on Earth from early births to interrupted sleep

• 33 mins

Do Animals Have Accents?

Can animals of the same species from different places communicate with each other?

• 26 mins

Could Bees Take Over From Sniffer Dogs?

How can we humans use other animals’ senses for our benefit?

• 28 mins

Is Nuclear Fusion Coming Anytime Soon?

After all the money spent, are we really anywhere close to limitless clean energy?

• 26 mins

Why Do We Follow the Crowd?

Discover the secrets of your inner sheep and whether the crowd is as wise as they say

• 33 mins

Does Anything Stand Still?

Our hunt for perfect stillness takes us back to the early days of science and into space

• 29 mins

Is The Future of Food a Pill?

Can we produce artificial food sources providing all nutrients for healthy human life?

• 35 mins

Can We Find a Cure for Dementia?

We speak to scientists searching for a cure for dementia

• 29 mins

Why Do Insects Fly Towards Lights?

What does the Higgs boson do for the Universe? Why do insects fly into lights?

• 28 mins

Are Screens Bad For My Child’s Eyes?

Are screens bad for my child’s eyes? Marnie Chesterton presents

• 28 mins

Can Sucking CO2 Out of the Air Solve Climate Change?

What are our options for removing carbon dioxide from the air?

• 30 mins

Why Don’t We All Like The Same Food?

How does biology and culture shape what’s delicious and disgusting?

• 30 mins

Why Do Humans Dance?

What role does dance play in human life and evolution? We head to Cuba to find out

• 33 mins

How is Your Brain Better Than a Computer?

How computers can be faster, but brains are still better

• 26 mins

Is Fasting Healthy?

Marnie Chesterton investigates the science behind low-calorie and time-restricted eating

• 31 mins

How Green Are Electric Vehicles?

The future is electric but are zero emission vehicles as clean as the manufacturers claim?

• 28 mins

Is Hypnosis a Real Thing?

Can science explain what’s going on when someone is hypnotised?

• 29 mins

What Shapes Our Musical Taste?

Why does one person’s heavenly music sound like boring noise to another?

• 26 mins

Will We Run Out of Groundwater?

Will we run out of groundwater and what will happen if we do?

• 29 mins

Do Plants Talk about Sex?

Plants do communicate, but what are they talking about? Sex seems a likely answer

• 26 mins

Where Do All Our Vegetables Come From?

Have you ever seen a Brussels sprout growing in the wild? Neither has listener Pogo.

• 26 mins

Why do Humans have Different Coloured Skin?

Anand Jagatia looks at the science behind why we have different skin colours

• 29 mins

How Do Magnets Work?

What’s going on in a magnetic field?

• 34 mins

Why Does History Repeat Itself?

Why do we often ignore our parents’ advice?

• 31 mins

How Do You Stop a Hedgehog Invasion?

Getting rid of an invader that people think is cute poses all sorts of prickly problems…

• 26 mins

Can we trap light in a box?

What is light and can we trap it in a box? Marnie Chesterton investigates.

• 29 mins

Could humans live in underwater cities?

Could oceanic cities become a reality, and how might they be built?

• 32 mins

Is there life on Mars?

Could Mars be a planet where life existed? Marnie Chesterton explains

• 27 mins